MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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Telling the truth about Orgreave
ANGUS REID speaks to Daniel Gordon about his new film Strike - an uncivil war
WORKING CLASS POINT OF VIEW: (L) Filmmaker Daniel Gordon; (R) A still from the VHS camera of a miner as the mounted police charge through Orgreave village, June 18 1984
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ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
TO make a film about the events of June 18 1984 at Orgreave coking works has occupied film-maker Daniel Gordon for a decade.
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